Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
First, no one is going to get in trouble, UA understands plans change. UA will not send you a bill if you cancel your return flight. Not canceling, at all, will guarantee no credit (so, wait till day of travel). The worst that will happen to her is loss of E+ and reseated in E_(if you cancel too early). But waiting till day of travel to cancel, this minimizes the chance of loss of E+. But change her seat assignment now to the better of your two seats.
If you book travel on UA the same day as the other ticket, there could be an issue but that does not sounds like that will happen.
As far as using your flight credit, yes, the options are limited -- worth reading some prior posts for some ideas but your concerns on using the credit are well founded.
Thanks for the response. After some finagling and playing around with the site I managed to pull off an even better end result:
I cancelled my Roundtrip EWR-TLV Trip and got a flight credit of $847. Rebooked a 1 way flight EWR-TLV from that credit for $592 so I now have a 1 way ticket and a $255 credit for later. Wife is on a separate PNR but is still in her E+ seats both ways. One of those situations where if she wants to move seats they will charge her a ton but since I was originally attached to her PNR during seat selection she is "grandfathered" into her Aisle seat on both legs.
Originally Posted by
jsloan
Did you base this upon what UA told you it would cost to change using their online tool -- which is often wrong?
Put another way, was your one-way flight back to the US ~half the cost of our original flight, or was it much more than that?
I was playing around with it online and had an agent confirm it with me over the phone that a Multi City Trip would be considered a more expensive fare class than a 1 way and that even though it didn't seem correct, that me booking the 1 way would in fact be cheaper then changing my flight. At least now I have my flight situation squared away and with a nice credit to boot as well which is being used on a Cancun trip this summer which I need to book.